(24 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy – 24 June 2024
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1. Various of Giorgia Meloni, Italian Prime Minister, and Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister entering conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Meloni, Italian Prime Minister:
“I want to stress that I really appreciate and share the priority that Hungary has set of its European presidency, starting from the decision to have among the priorities a challenge that I have stressed many times also for the competence of the European Union, and I am talking about the demographic challenge. It is a condition for a great Europe, for a Europe that is able to again be protagonist in the world. The low birth rate is hitting the whole continent, today no European country reaches the replacement fertility rate, the minimum number of children per woman to guarantee a continuity of our population.”
3. Various of Orban and Meloni
4. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
++ROUGH TRANSLATION FROM SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATOR++ “(Talking about the formation of the European Commission) It used to be a neutral institution and then they started a new process where the Commission began to lose its neutrality and the situation worsened. Now there is a coalition of three parties that shares out the European top jobs, without involving the other parties and this philosophy does not respond to the European collaboration spirit.”
5. Various of Meloni and Orban leaving
STORYLINE:
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomed her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban to Rome on Monday, ahead of this week’s EU summit.
The summit is set to be crucial in reference to the Union’s top jobs following this month’s European elections.
From July 1st Hungary will hold the presidency of the European Union and Meloni stressed that she shares most of the priorities announced by the Hungarian government, especially the demographic challenge and specifically, the low birth rate of the continent.
Orban stressed that despite being in different political groups at the European parliament, his party Fidesz and Meloni’s Brothers of Italy will continue having close collaboration on tougher migration regulations and trade.
AP Video by Paolo Santalucia
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